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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. Transit of Mercury.






2. FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.






3. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






4. At 16-08 UTC on July 29 - Mercury will occult Mars.






5. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






6. Transit of Venus on June 11.






7. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






8. Cosmic Call 1 will reach its destination - the star Gliese 777.






9. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






10. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang - South Korea.






11. Transit of Mercury.






12. The Chernobyl exclusion zone becomes habitable.






13. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






14. The One country - two systems model between China and Hong Kong will terminate in this year.






15. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






16. The Chernobyl exclusion zone becomes habitable.






17. 2019 Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan. 2019 Cricket World Cup to be held in England.






18. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






19. With an estimated probability of 0.07% - Apollo asteroid 1999 RQ36 could hit the Earth.






20. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






21. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






22. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






23. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






24. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






25. Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara people on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.






26. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.






27. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang - South Korea.






28. December 10






29. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.






30. Sedna overtakes Eris as the farthest known spheroid orbiting the Sun.






31. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






32. FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.






33. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






34. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






35. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






36. Transit of Venus.






37. August will be the first time Pluto reaches aphelion since its discovery.






38. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






39. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






40. Venus occults Spica.The previous occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10 - 1783. December 24 - The Moon will occult Neptune.






41. Transit of Mercury.






42. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






43. Triple conjunction Mars






44. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






45. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






46. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






47. Transit of Mercury.






48. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






49. Transit of Venus on June 9.






50. Triple conjunction Mars